Suggestion for developers

[stone man]

There are a lot of games on Steam for Mac that look intriguing and I'd like to try out, but I'm not going to. Why? I don't have any way to try them. Only two or three games have demos. It's a lot to ask that I buy yet another FPS or puzzle game sight-unseen.

For example, I had never heard of Killing Floor until just a few days ago, and the Metacritic reviews are mixed. I'd still like to try it out, but I can't. So my only options are to shell out $15 for a game I might not like or save my $15 for a more sure thing. So I'm not buying.

Several others actually do have demos (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1273112), but the demos aren't on Steam. That's just throwing away money.

So, TLDR version: Please make demos for your games — and if you have demos, let people know about them.

(I don't know how many developers actually read this forum, but I figured this was as good as place to post it as anywhere else.)

[Yoshiro]

We dont' do demos. We do guest passes and free weekends. Several people are handing out their guest passes for KF, so try asking around for one.

[Poodle]

We dont' do demos. We do guest passes and free weekends. Several people are handing out their guest passes for KF, so try asking around for one.
Free weekends are an acceptable form of demo but I don't think telling users to beg for a guest pass is a good idea. Those requests will be tantamount to spam which is annoying for others and more importantly it accustoms people into accepting benefits/gifts from strangers (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=831297) which is generally not in their interests. Stone Man, that's no reason not to ask any of your friends who play Killing Floor directly though - assuming you have any that do.